Thirty Tyrants

Dictionary.com defines a gadfly as “any of various flies… that bite or annoy domestic animals.” To most people- farmers, horseback riders, and even the occasional pool goer- gadflies are seen as a nuisance. They wreak havoc on livestock and humans alike, with seemingly no purpose to them other than to annoy and disrupt. However, Socrates sees the gadfly as more than just a pest. In Plato’s “Apology”, he compares society to “a great and noble horse” and himself to a gadfly. In his eyes, society has

The Thirty Tyrants was the name for the small group of men who overthrew the Athenian democracy to replace it with their own oligarchy form of government, where the few ruled over the many. While Athenian men had previously enjoyed many rights within their city-state, under the rule of the Thirty Tyrants a council of 500 men were assembled to fulfill government roles, while the rest of the citizens were stripped of their rights. While it was clear toward the end of Socrates’ life when

Ancient Greece consisted of several hundred polies or city states. Many of them were villages or small towns, but there were two big and powerful Greek polies, Athens and Sparta. Athens was a cultural and economic powerhouse, and the birthplace of democracy. Sparta was an imperial city state, and had two kings (Brand, n.d.). (1) There were five types of f government in Ancient Greece: monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, tyranny and democracy. Monarchy Monarchy is “undivided rule or absolute

In this essay I will cover the laws created by Solon and the public reaction versus the acts done by Pisistratus during his age of Tyranny on Athens, to highlight the different approaches of two men with opposing ideals about how Athens should be governed and which one worked out best for the people. So in essence, did Solons reforms make a better constitution in terms of the prosperity of the people, than the laws created by Pisistratus during his Tyranny? Solon is hailed as the person who started

Tyrannicide is the killing of a tyrant. Usually killed for the common good. The English noun tyrant derives from Latin tyrannus, meaning "illegitimate ruler". The term Tryannicides describes those who kill tyrants. Tyrants can be classified in two categories – usurpation and oppression. A tyrant by usurpation is when a tyrant tries to take down a higher ruler. In other words, a tyrant by usurpation is a traitor. These types of tyrants may be put straight to death by legitimate authority. If a usurper

Andrewes mentions “connections with other tyrants” as one of his characteristics of tyranny and in Herodotus we can find several evidences to support this claim. Polykrates is friends with Amasis, the king of Egypt and with Cambyses of Cyrus. Cambyses was already waging war with Egypt when Amasis

In this essay I will attempt to prove that a ‘typical tyrant’ does not exist as each have their own ambitions. The issue with asking whether there is such thing as a typical tyrant arises from the fact that we must consider what the word ‘tyrant’ actually means. The Oxford Classical Dictionary states, “Tyranny was not a special form of constitution, or necessarily a reign of terror; the tyrant might either rule directly or retain the existing political institutions but exercise a preponderant influence

Nigeria is being led by a tyrant and its people are becoming more oppressed while Kambili and Jaja are left to grow up with a terribly imbalanced worldview, informed only by the limited and somewhat tyrannical and oppressive way of life represented by their father. Throughout the novel, there is the contradiction that everyone thinks that Eugene is a man who is fighting for peace in Nigeria. He and Ade Coker were brave enough to continue to publish and speak against the tyrant on the Standard in fact

order to try and record with the best accuracy what events were occurring around him and the ones that had occurred in the past. With this in mind, it is very difficult to offer which way Herodotus may have viewed Polycrates while writing about the tyrant and his story. This was also the reason why he avoided passing judgment on Polycrates himself, or at least attempted to. Herodotus may have actually passed his judgment indirectly while writing about Polycrates. In the texts, Herodotus gives hints

the third stage, oligarchy, the oligarch works under the sway of greed. Democracy, is the fourth stage, where the democrat is slave to the destructive thirst for freedom. The final, and according to Plato, the worst stage, is tyranny, wherein the tyrant strives for power. Within the public school system, the lives of high school students mirror the lives of people within a functioning society. In Hercules High School, the students’ lives, and therefore, their classes are also defined by the different